Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-04-29
THouaArs ee'oM sEecHsR.
typical Expressions Cuiicd From
His published Utternnccs.

1
basty glance through a few of his pub
tished utterances discloses these cpl
| prammatic thoughts upon every page
A few of them are culed and present
cd below, but they of necessity lack
completeness, and serve better to show
M. Beecher's orig nality of expression
than the breadth of his mind. The mis-.
conceptions of religion and the quarrel
mo of the sects were frequent topics
with him:
| Religion is q very slim, lean, gaunt,
Door. i'll. fed thing as it is ordinarily
conceived of in this world.
Men sit around tool-chest quarrel
| inc about saws and planes and chiscls.
| rhey are not building anything. They
| are debating about tools. They are fit
! 10 be in theological seminary.
That IND of revival preaching which
| seeks to drive men into heaven by the
| fear of hell is not Chr stianity. 1t is
| he worst form OF paganism.
Sects are candlesticks. and man or
woman that is big enough to be good
| for anything IS too large for any sect.
| Why is it that men think it incumbent
| anon them to be cats and dogs in relig-
| ion and gentlemen in everything out
side of ite
| Sunday with him was not day of
| gloom, and he took frequent occasion
! 20 show the needlessness of being SON.
Der on that day:
| esteem the awfulness that is attach
| ed to Sunday and church and pulpit the
| greatest mistake of Christendom.
| The prevalent idea of Keeping the
| Sabbath is that it is a day on which
certain things must not be done. TO
the majority of people Sunday is day
| full of notS.
| am in favor of any movement that
helps an, body to appreciate Sunday
as day of rest of healthful and pure
pleasure and that will gently lead men.
! women. and children from the things
Of low estate up to the higher.
Some of his utterances ON the ques-
! lion of death and the future life are
peculiarly appropr ate at this time:
To one who is living Alright, no death
Fan be sudden and no place unfav ora
! Die. One step and all roads meet.
Dying is the best part OF life to one
! Nho knows how to live worthilv.
If the life that has gone out has been
like music, full of concords, full of
sweetness, richness, delicacy, truth,
then there are two ways to look at it.
One is 10 say. al have not lost it" An
other to say, BLESSED be God thai /
nave had it so long!'
When we comprehend the fullness. of
what death Will do for US, in all our
outlook and forelook- dying is triumph
no. Nowhere is there so falr a sight,
80 sweet prospect, as when Il young
soul is passing away out of life and
lime through the gate of death-the
'osy, the royal. the golden. the pearly
gate of death. ...,...
Death is as sweet us flowers are. 1t
5 as blessed as bird-sing ng in spring.
never hear of the death of anyone
Who is ready to die that my heart does
1ot sing like harp. l am sorry for
hose left behind, but not for those
gone before.
As | grow older and come higher to
Heath, look upon it more and more
With complacent JOY, and out of every
onging 1 hear God say: 30, trust
nc. hungering one. come to Me. -
What the other life III bring / know
lot, only that shall awake in Gods
LIKENESS and see Him as He Is.
Beat on, then, o heart. and yearn
or dying. l have drank at many a
iountain, but thirst came again; have
ed at many bounteous table,. but
munger returned; | have seen MANY
bright and lovely things. but while ]
sazed their luster faded There is
aothing here that can give me rest, but
when | behold thee, o God, / shall be
sat SIZED.
Ills ever eXuberant and joyous ma
'ure was constant protest against the
ascetic in religion or in daily life.
| Don't NOPE. Be young as long as
Fou live. Laugh good deal Frolic
Every day. A low tome of mind is I'm
lealthy.
A lawyer who works ten months in
he year and then for two solid months
amuses himself VII last twice as LONG
As If he took no recreation.
Men have come to think that tears
are more sacred than smiles. MOI
Laughing is as divine us crying.
Humor usually tends toward ooot
nature, and everything that tends to.
ward good nature tends toward good
grace.
II laughing is sin, don see what
the Lord lets so many funny things hap,
pen for.
Having wit and buoyancy of spirits
let them flash ont in services of reli.
gion. Don't consider it necessary tc
rake them up and hide them.
| Humor is the atmosphere in which
GAGE most ilourishes.
say when person becomes ,
Christian that he loses nothino that h,
should not be afraid to keen. If eve,